[newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

[Andrea Fachiri]

----- Original Message ----- From: "etharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrea Fachiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake > I have taken a bit of grief for that link, soooo sorry. > I hope this all helps out, or at least confuses you so much that you get it > to work correctly. > In My Humble Opinion, network configuration is not allways a trivial task, by > that I mean you have to have your PIZZA and COKE (or coffee if it's morning) > with you when you start. > On the winders box do you have TCP/IP installed? if you need help with any of > the questions, please just ask. are you using a static IP number? or are you > getting one from a dhcp server? > one thing you did not state was the "hosts.deny" as well as "hosts.allow" > files might have to be edited. > I am sending the rest to you "off list" since I am not to sure if everyone > wants to hear the particulars about your system. > In My opinion, everyones network is a little different, and while they all > are the same in a lot of ways, each setup is unique, if done correctly. > The learning experience is something we all have to learn to enjoy, and to > take a step back and breath deep when it gets frustrating. > here is something from a few different posts I saved: > > > > > > > On Sunday 29 July 2001 13:22, Andrea Fachiri wrote: > > > > I have been trying to install a simple home network first in Linux > > > > Mandrake 7.0 (last year)  and now in 8.0 but I can't find the proper > > > > instructions.Eventually the network should connect two PC in Windows to > > > > the present one in Linux , but I have meanwhile  installed Linux als o > > > > on a second PC for  what I hoped more successful trials. > > > > Can anybody  give me a hint? Books to read , downloads of articles? > > > > Network in Windows (both ME and Win 2k) works OK. I am using analogx > > > > for Internet /intranet connection  and have no problem.Though I have > > > > some experience in programming in DOS ,Basics, Dbase, Clipper etc:) my > > > > knowledge of Linux are still at the newbie level. > > > > I have been looking around but, so far, I have only seen a lot of > > > > different problems and suggestions, which added to an already existing > > > > confusion in my mind. > > > > Could anybody help?   I do love the Penguin and would get away from M$, > > > > if I can!-and I am  trying hard   ....er! > > > > Tks so much > > > > > > > > Andrea > > > > Thanks a lot for the tip. I apologize with you and the others nice guys who > > answered me for my delay in answering , but I have been ( and still am ) > > struggling with Linux networking since. > > Unfortunately the site you mentioned is not available. I got meanwhile a > > book on Samba, a very interesting article from Tom Berger (thanks Tom, if > > you by chance are reading me) but, helas, I cannot get my d.. machine to > > accept a server name. I have made thre or four different smb.conf files, > > changing server names, adding localdomain etc. but , though ping gives me > > good results, both interms of IP numeric and alphabetical addresses, on the > > "server" PC and on the Windows machine, when I get to smbclient // > > localhost/tmp (as per Tom's article) I get invariably : (after anonymous > > link successful) "Invalid network name in tree connect." I have tried > > several names in lieu of localhost, I have tried ftp server but results are > > always the same. Have modified Lmhosts, hosts, hosts.allow adding and > > taking off names. I have re-installed LM 8.0 with all possible reasonable > > alternatives. I have changed IP numbers to 192.168.1.......( I was using > > 10.0.0..... before)Being ping operating, I would exclude hardware and card > > installation problems (cards work OK in Windows 2k and ME). > > I'll keep on trying, because nothing is impossible, but I would highly > > appreciate some shortcuts. > > > > With my thanks to everybody. > > Andrea > Before I get lost again among Samba and Linux files, I want to thank you again and answer some of your questions. I assure you that I have never underestimated the task of installing a network but, so far, I have been able to manage with Win Nt and 2k ( I even got some REAL help from Bill's people in Milan, but this was  four or five years ago, when they were still willing to give some useful advice.....) 1. yes, I have TC/IP installed (and NetBEUI as well) 2. I am using static numbers (so far I have used 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3 for the three machines I have-there is a forth one, but is presently idling...). Analogx gives me ability to download files from Internet anf to browse the net from each PC. My master PC is an AMD 700 with Win2k installed, connected with external ISDN adapter to Internet. 3. I left .hosts.deny file empty. I made sure no IP or name was in. I will carefully examine your smb.conf file ,to compare it with my present one and with the other smb.conf files I have around from different sources and get the most out of it. Meanwhile I would ask you: 1.How do I find a possible difference in name between DNS names and Netbios names? 2. You wrote :hosts allow = 192.168.0.2, 127. . Is the comma before 127 correct ? Does it mean from 2 to 127 , as I presume? ( I read somewhere that by writing 192.168.0. -leaving out the last digit(s) -would mean from 0 to 255. 3. I read that Samba does not support WIn2k domains. My network has only one workgroup (named, guess,....workgroup-but I am going to change it soon). I have never bothered with domains. However, I tried  to add "localdomain" to the PC name which is acting.- provisionally- as LM server: it is a 1.2AMD with 356 Mb memory 30 gig+ 5 gig HD(Linux is on this last one, in two-actually three, with swap- Linux partitions, made with Partition Magic and using Boot Magic 4. I have just downloaded Samba 2.0.7 (Mandrake distro version is 2.0.5: will it help installing it?) I hope you will not be too annoyed by my questions, but , so far, you have given me much help and I am sure that with yur valuable help I'll come out from these problems, as I have always in the past since the times of Basic and CP/M Assembler, when I had to make my own home brewed OS- DOS did not exist back in 1979! Thanks again. I am anxious to read your next e-mail. Andrea I sent "etharp" the above message (which I partly edited now to avoid reaching unbearable e-mail dimensions). Possibly I should have sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,but it came out as a natural answering to the sender's address. So far (unless I missed it, among so many e-mails which arrive every day) I have not yet got an answer:was the e-mail received? Thanks again for your kindness in bearing up with me! Andrea